Art Things And Randomness

Any Pronouns, 25 yrs old, more into streaming and reading than anything else nowadays

[seraphinedemort]

I am not a writer or anything but have prompt, that came to me via dreams!

Edit: If anyone ever takes this and runs with it, please just tag me! Also NO KARKING AI DI'KUT'S! If you do use AI, YOUR BRAIN CELL IS LONELY!

Jinn leaves Obi-Wan on a newly discovered planet.

No puppet frenzy.

Guppeto is getting on in years, but he is the one who is over the factory that makes puppets. He makes the "heart" of a puppet, inscibes The Rules onto said "heart", and such.

Jinn leaves Obi-Wan there with Guppeto, for some reason or other. Jinn doesn't come back when he said he would. Guppeto, who has experimented on himself(kinda), has lost the plot entirely by this time.

The puppets under him are the main caretakers of Obi-Wan and the newly made puppets, who are just waking up as it were.

Guppeto dies. The puppets all over stop working.

Obi-Wan knows, via The Force, he has to fix this.

So he does what Guppeto did to himself. He makes his own "heart" inscibes his own "rules" (Mandalorian! Obi-Wan, except replacing "Leader" with The Force) and puts into the main "reactor" (and himself, otherwise the reactor, that works w/ biosignals, wont transmit properly) that transmits the signal for puppets to work.

The puppets start again. The head puppets at the factory, now thinks Obi-Wan is the new "Madter of the Factory" as it were.

Obi-Wan doesn't feel the force pulling him away anymore. His new objective? Protect this planet in particular. Make new hearts with specific line from The Rules that harmonize with the role they are made for.

Ex.: A child's companion puppet being given The Rule:

Children are The Future > Therfore Defense of Family/Clan, lethal force allowed and encouraged.

Something, something, plot, adversity, some jedi/clone(if the clone wars still happen) crash lands somewhere close to the factory, romance or bromance happens, idk, plot

[prideprejudce]

so today a public health official guy came into my class to give a lecture on disaster awareness and he was talking about house fires and mentioned that the reason people most likely die during a house fire is because they refuse to leave their pet inside or they go back to get their pet. and right when he said this my friend immediately turned his head and looked at me and in that moment I had the most complete and genuine acceptance take over my body. I would 100% in front of my family and Jesus himself walk straight back into some raging inferno that was once my house to go get my fat cat. I nodded back

[prideprejudce]

the best part of this post is reading all the tags from animal people who would also go back to save their pets. like no hesitation. walk backwards from heaven straight back into hell. someone even said they would go back for their fish. amazing

[sterna-hirundo]

If you are a person who would walk into a blazing inferno for your animal, and your pet has free movement around the house, here’s a training exercise that could help save you both:

1) Set off your smoke alarm or play the sound on your phone (if your home has no smoke alarms, pease get some!)

2) stand BY THE FRONT DOOR to hand out treats

Do this a couple times and then keep it up NO EXCEPTIONS. Accidentally set the alarm off cooking? Treats by the door. Smoke alarm sound on TV? Treats by the door. Changing your smoke alarm batteries twice a year like you’re supposed to? Give them a test run and your pets get treats by the door.

Most dogs and cats will clue in VERY quickly that hearing that specific sound means go to the front door and wait for treats.

If there’s an emergency and even if you leave by another way, you will still know the most likely place your pet(s) is and can direct first responders to help.

You can also do this for any other kind of emergency alarm. My friend had both her cats trained to go to the front door for a tsunami siren.

[ao3legendarium]

how the fuck does one achieve these heights

[shewhowillrise]

That’s my oomf and I would like it to be known it was a bloodymary fic

[seraphinedemort]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82332346/chapters/216694216

Have a link

[seraphinedemort]

Yall...I'm so upset with myself...I got the wrong size tunnels! Thankfully I didn't open the package, so I can send them back and get a refund and Then buy the correct size! I really have to pay better attention to the mm size, and Not the gauge size!

[kawuli]

random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google

I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.

also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo

also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)

[yomikoreadsbooks]

Keeping a list of Google alternatives just in case…

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:

Search Engines

Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy

DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)

WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.

Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.

Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.

Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines. 

Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted. 

Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy. 

Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.

Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden. 

MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.

Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching. 

Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar. 

https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results. 

https://www.mojeek.com/ 

https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites. 

https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.

https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.

https://yep.com/ is a crawler

https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx

https://www.dogpile.com/ 

https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)

https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?

https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?

https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.

Other Searchers

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine

[junipermint]

Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of decoden and polymer clay questions about what to use to as a gloss/glaze. Almost every time the first response is “Clear nail polish, duh!”.

This needs to stop if people want to be creating quality items. Sometimes I’m afraid to buy handmade things for fear that they have been sealed with clear nail polish and they will deteriorate over time. I want to buy things that will last!

[unrequitedstar]

I’ve reblogged this before - but it’s sooooo important. crafting signal boost 

[aicosu]

Oh jeez, I didn’t even know that was a thing. No - never use nail polish thats a horrible idea. 

[insert-apt-title-here]

As a person who makes crafts, I must do my part in the war against nail-polish!

[moran-with-a-g]

I tried using clear nail polish before for that purpose and I don’t recommend it. It was the only thing I already had at home and I figured why not.

It smelled like nail polish forEVER, it was somehow sticky, you could see every brush stroke, and it just ruined the project.

Do yourself a favour and buy something that is actually meant to be used that way. Even if you’re a teen and all you have at hand is your mom’s nail polish.

[mini-wrants]

The thing that’s always missing from the “women didn’t fight for the right to work they were already working they fought to get paid” is that many women also very much wanted to work.

Women wanted to be lawyers and engineers and chemists. They wanted to use their brains in challenging and interesting ways. They wanted to get the satisfaction from solving problems and inventing new shit and getting attention for it.

I know not everyone is born with intellectual curiosity or drive or determination but some people are and many of those people are women.

[mini-wrants]

[mini-wrants]

Literally.

[kenfetti-week]

ALL OF THEM. ANY OF THE DAYS. USE THIS FOR EVERY DAY.

no but seriously, the conlangers, the timeliners, the fans who do that, they're the real MVPs.

Stùjàni Language Directory Mando'a Flashcards for Language EU Download Masterpost Dai Bendu Directory Disaster Lineage Timeline Revenge of the Sith & Clone Wars Timeline Clone Wars Specific Timeline Character Age Calc

(Special thanks to Ergo <3)

[seraphinedemort]

Reblogging for the language flashcards. I'm a sucker for odd languages.

[padawansuggest]

CloneTok

Clone 1: people be like, look at my terrifying scary Jedi, they just took down an entire platoon of separatists with nothing but a single blink, and then they drag their Jedi out and the Jedi be looking like-

Clone 2: *pulls a confused General Kenobi into the room who looks sleepy with big sad eyes and hugging a Commander Cody plushie*

Obi-Wan: hi?

Both clones: *losing their shit over how cute he is*

[raphaerolo]

Got obsessed with the image and had to doodle this sad tired man

[mobius-m-mobius]

Blanc and his Watsons 🔎💕

[pealeii]

[hotvampireadjacent]

Um. Thanks h

[throathole]

I fucking love this

[seraphinedemort]

This is hilarious. Am currently between classes, but am sitting in the classroom from the previous one, listening to a couple of fellow students and the prof. talk about stuff. I nearly LOL.

[leresq]

WE LOVE YOU PEDRO

[milfuetoast]

This is actually such a huge thing for an actor to do. Like we know he is wonderful and correct about this and not afraid to say so but when was the last time an actor this famous called for a boycott of a series this popular on a network THIS BIG.

[luulapants]

Got into a discussion about emergency response at a professional retreat recently and everyone was going on and on about agility, and I was like, "Okay but what about contingency?"

And they were like "What?"

And I was like, "Agility isn't the ultimate form of preparedness. Contingency is. Agility still requires you to flounder and figure out a solution in the moment, but if you have a contingency plan, all you have to do is implement it."

And they were like "But you can't make contingency plans for every situation!"

And I was like, "Yeah, you basically can if you just identify all of your basic dependencies and contingency plan around the loss of any dependency," and then I gave a few examples.

And they all stared at me like I'm an alien.

Anyway, that's how I figured out I'm Batman-coded and also learned how Batman must feel talking to supposedly professional superheroes who never bothered to run disaster scenarios until I pointed out that it's insane that they don't already have a plan for if Superman turns evil.

[nestofstraightlines]

There’s a phrase that really stuck in my head around this. It was from one of the British divers who enacted the Thai caving rescue, though I couldn’t tell you which one or which interview.

As he described to the interviewer a moment of panic and how he he overcame, the interviewer said, in one of those, summarise-last-answer-given-with-appropriate-levels-of-respect-in-order-to-proceed-to-next-question phrasing’s, “Wow, so you rose to the occasion -“

And the diver said, “No, actually people always get that exactly wrong. In an unexpected and urgent situation you don’t rise to the occasion. You sink to the level of your training.”

[throckmortons-thrussy]

[seraphinedemort]

Alrighty, need to make contingency arrangements for study days and such

[zazzedcoffee]

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Remaining time: 17036 days 22 hours

[hemoanemic]

it. it ends in 50 years…..horse is fucking eternal

[lthsm]

Let’s keep the post circulating for 50 years it’ll be great when we’re all in the old folks home

[anexperimentallife]

[queeriocheerios]

It’s called ‘being able to see the corpse’

[burning-cathedrals-deactivated2]

So if I put you in an L-shaped swimming pool, and you knew there was a corpse around the corner, you'd be fine?

[mwagneto]

loving the implication that I'm a little animal and you're a scientist putting me into various bodies of water to test my corpse:water ratio tolerance

[solrin]

We tried to warn you about the "adult content" bans. Now Kickstarter is starting that shit

[problematic-faves-appreciation]

"It must have serious value!"

Staight up sounds like obscenity law/Miller Test-type crap.

[asaflowerblossoms]

"Fetishized imagery intended to arouse" well it's a good thing oppressed and vulnerable communities are never fetishized.

[solrin]

I know many of you have already liked and reblogged this post, but I'm going to attach a couple of links for resources on how to contact payment processors and whatnot. Hopefully they can get spread around a bit. It includes how to contact the payment processors, scripts, and various links to other (at the time ongoing, these websites haven't been updated in about 8 months and 1 year respectively) petitions and forms that might be useful to you.

Protect Queer Creators and Sex Workers - Tell Payment Processors to STOP

TELL VISA, MASTERCARD, STRIPE, and PayPal to STOP

I'd also like to ask people to be willing to bring this conversation into spaces where things like "politics" aren't welcome and more forcefully draw attention to the ever growing issue of censorship. Some of you may only have those communities to draw on but we've long since run out of peaceful/polite/non-disruptive options.

[the-bees-cheese]

friendly reminder to my AFAB folks with ADHD:

your medication does not work properly when you’re on your period

because of lazy, misogynistic research practices in the testing of ADHD medications, it has only been discovered recently that hormone imbalances during your menstrual period essentially cancel out the effect of your medication.

(if you want to know about the aforementioned lazy research practices, the scientists doing the testing for adderall and vyvanse only used male mice and AMAB humans to test them on because the hormonal cycles of female/AFAB test subjects “affected test results, causing data to be inconsistent”.)

so yeah, if you feel horrible and sad and like you can’t get going while you’re on your period, that’s why :)

[pixelartpeach]

Source for people who need it, article posted May 24, 2022

[pixelartpeach]

And double reblogging to get by the “links don’t show up in the reblogs section.” If you’re looking for a source, click here.

[sageiswherethemageis]

WHAT

WHAT THE FUCK